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Reply | Refwatch - Leamington v Rochdale (FA Trophy)
at 12:02 15 Dec 2025
Don't disagree with any of that and of course they had much better gates against Hartlepool and Southend that has boosted their average. They have been hovering around 600-700 over recent months with the decline in form. But 250 hardcore is still a surprise. Not sure how they will survive to be honest. |
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Reply | Refwatch - Leamington v Rochdale (FA Trophy)
at 21:45 14 Dec 2025
Was just reading that Gateshead had a total attendance yesterday for the cup game against Morecambe of 363 - of which 103 were from Morecambe. So a home gate of just 250. We think we have a challenge on attendances |
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Reply | FIFA gouging the fans again
at 12:28 12 Dec 2025
People need to boycott it. Over $4,000 for a final ticket. And circa $15k per person to follow their team through all stages and pay for travel too. It is obscene. Even the Americans are complaining. The ordinary fan was priced out of our beautiful game decades ago. There is a call for UEFA to pull away from FIFA and run the Euros every 2 years. Some of the other football federations (like South America) can then choose whether to join in. FIFA has to go. |
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Reply | Joey Barton
at 00:02 10 Dec 2025
He has got away lightly on this one. The Judge said his offending was of a serious nature and normally started at 2 years imprisonment for each offence. Barton arrived at court with a holdall expecting to be going to jail. I was surprised to hear his prison term was suspended. The judge referred to his poor track record before the courts too. He has got away with it....except big fines and some compensation pay outs. |
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Reply | Supporter Coaches For Accrington Home Games
at 16:00 8 Dec 2025
Indeed TVOS. Just thought the club would have announced something before fans started committing to the seats. I know you could argue that those getting the seats this week are all ST holders and they have nothing to lose. But if they can't get there, the seat will be booked out but left empty. There are only 2500 seats for home fans at Accy and it is a Christmas fixture against Hartlepool. We don't want the same outcome as the free games, where no tickets were left on the day, but more than half the booked seats remained empty on the night.
Anyhow, lets hope that something is announced this week. |
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Reply | Supporter Coaches For Accrington Home Games
at 14:26 8 Dec 2025
Whilst I applaud these organisations for stepping in to offer a service whilst the club remains silent, I was hoping that the club would run a fleet of double decker buses at say £5 return to get as many fans to Accrington as possible. Time will tell. |
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Reply | Refwatch - Rochdale v Southend United
at 11:03 7 Dec 2025
I think you are in danger of turning the comments of a man that was both angry and frsutrated with the outcome of a game into a villain. Remember his emotions are high after a game - I generally don't listen to him now after a game because he talks tripe. Is he frustrated that we haven't got a decent pitch after all the money spent on it 5 years ago - Yes he is. Aren't we all. He was very very clear that the new owners had nothing to do with that and that they are focussed on helping him to fix things. His swipe was at previous regimes. I would of course respectfully remind him that previous regimes have done their best with their hands tied behind their back. Money has always been in short supply. He will have felt that in all his time at the club. If only we had the support base of a York, a Southend, or a Carlisle, and we would have had the funds to make sure everything was fine. But we don't. And of course these clubs haven't ever gone bust either despite their incomes have they? I think we all know that we have been very lucky to have survived over the past 20+ years. |
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Reply | Refwatch - Rochdale v Southend United
at 10:52 7 Dec 2025
Behave. You have no idea what the club knew or didn't know. Experts told the club it would be okay if covered during the deep winter months and then a full rebuild would be needed in summer 2026. They didn't ignore the issues - they took advice. Something you lot should have done when you were gloating about flying to Exeter when your club was spending money it didn't have. At least we still don't spend money we don't have. |
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Reply | Update on the pitch
at 12:07 4 Dec 2025
We upgraded the floodlights to meet new regulations about 3 or 4 years ago. So I doubt they are below the standard needed. But they don't feel very bright I agree. Given that the Ogdens are lending the club another £1.5m (?) to rebuild the pitch, I am not sure we can ask for more at this time. |
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Reply | Update on the pitch
at 10:51 30 Nov 2025
Seems bizarre that people think like that. On the day, that ground will be ours and we will make it a home by being there in numbers. The club now need to find ways to make it easier for fans to get there. Somebody earlier in this thread didn't agree with me, but I think the club needs to arrange transport to the other ground from Spotland and the town centre at a nominal cost to the fans (i.e not for profit). Take the hassle and excuses away. We have hundreds of fans that travel from far and wide to games, it would be a shame if some people locally find an excuse not to do it. |
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Reply | Update on the pitch
at 19:26 28 Nov 2025
I am sure that the fans will understand. I would hope that the club would organise transport for travel to another ground on a not for profit basis. But lets see where the ground will be. I am sure the club has provisional commitments before they agreed a plan with the National League.
As you say, the club debt doesn't need to grow in order to keep everyone happy |
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Reply | Refwatch - Rochdale v Aldershot Town
at 17:17 15 Nov 2025
We all groaned when he took McBride off. But fair play, the subs made a real difference. Not a great watch, but winning ugly is the next best option. Shame about the gate, but the uncertainty with the pitch doesn't help. |
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Reply | Update on the pitch
at 21:40 14 Nov 2025
It is wild out there. Lorries queueing at Milnrow on M62 due to winds on M62 at Rakewood. Queensway flooded both sides ... barely passable. It would be a shame if the pitch is okay but the area around the ground isn't.
No idea where Aldershot are staying but they are not at the Norton Grange. |
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Reply | Update on the pitch
at 23:27 7 Nov 2025
And Bury, Owdum, Accy and FC United are all at home on the 15th - the day we are supposed to play Aldershot. So moving it won't be so easy |
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Reply | Rochdale v Scunthorpe on Tuesday
at 22:38 4 Nov 2025
Accrington would be a decent shout. They invested heavily in their pitch just before their Chairman threw his toys out of the pram. Given he has slashed the money he is putting in, they'd be glad of the extra revenue perhaps. We'd have to lay on buses to get our fans there in any volume. |
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Reply | Rochdale v Scunthorpe on Tuesday
at 09:46 4 Nov 2025
To be fair they shared the details in an article when they were trying to fix the pitch last season. There are drains and they are working. The problem related to the water getting down as far as the drains. The layer of sub soil between the top surface and the drains is not doing its job. I am sure it isn't clay - but imagine it was. So water is sitting above that layer and not draining away. The whole pitch needs to be dug up yet again down to about 3 foot and rebuilt from scratch - hence the £1.2m cost they quoted. They had hoped to get through to next summer before they invested in that - recognising that last year they were still debating a stadium move
For now we need to go cap in hand and speak to our neighbours about ground sharing for a while. Self imploding this season would kill any chance of making this club sustainable in my lifetime. |
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Reply | Rochdale v Scunthorpe on Tuesday
at 16:28 3 Nov 2025
The TV company paid for an air balloon type cover once ahead of a televised game. Not sure it was the Spurs game as we had only re-laid the pitch a week beforehand. |
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Reply | Rochdale v Scunthorpe on Tuesday
at 13:23 2 Nov 2025
I do hope the game goes ahead. Already booked my travel and hotel - don't want to be out of pocket again. The club just needs to communicate what it is doing. They have identified a group of volunteers to help with the covers - surely they could tell us if they have been asked to pull the covers on over the past few days |
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Reply | Dale v Man Utd under 21s
at 08:24 28 Oct 2025
Indeed. There are no seats left now - just the Sandy Lane terrace. The club may decide to open Wilbutts stand. |
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Thread | Dale v Man Utd under 21s
at 12:37 27 Oct 2025
I notice that we have almost sold out of the free tickets for seating. The mainstand is sold out and there are about 150 tickets left in the Pearl Street. Hope that those that have reserved a free seat turn up on the night. Looking like another 3000+ gate. |
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